The White House has a new cybersecurity agency that will focus on dealing with threats against both the U.S. and American businesses, officials announced on Tuesday. The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center will be modeled after the National ...

ASPEN, Colo. -- During a session on freedom of speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival, hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, Facebook's Head of Global Policy Management, Monika Bickert, was asked about the emotion-manipulation study that has be...

Facebook can be a wonderful place to connect with the people you care about. It can also be a dystopia of creepers, over-sharers, exes, amateur food photographer and -- worst of all -- parents who don't understand online privacy. If you ever wanted t...

Google has filed a patent for a software bot that would control your social media presence. The software would first learn your voice by studying all of your social media accounts, then it would automatically suggest updates and replies it can make f...

Google reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states over its circumvention of privacy settings for some Internet users. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., overrode default settings for Apple’s Safari browser that blocked cookies, sm...

Disclosures that the U.S. National Security Agency can crack codes protecting the online traffic of the world’s largest Internet companies will inflict more damage than earlier reports of complicity in government spying, according to technology and i...

I can't shake the feeling that the National Security Agency thinks I'm a chump. I mean, I've written a lot about them. I've talked to their media contacts. I've been denied clarifications. I've pored over their press releases and page after page of N...

The latest attack by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-Assad hackers, was first revealed on Thursday by a brief editor's note on The Washington Post's website. The attack compromised the content delivery service Outbrain, as reported by E Ha...

Our lives are increasingly online, which means a lot of our personal data is at risk. Abine, an online privacy company, found that the three things users wanted most protection for were emails, phone numbers and credit card numbers. While there are m...

The policies governing companies' collection and use of children's personal information were refreshed for the social media and mobile technology age this week as the new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rules went into effect on Mond...

Facebook shadow profiles. You may have seen the term crop up on tech news sites this week, and it may given you the feeling it's a nefarious privacy violation -- or the first fun feature that Facebook has introduced in years. But, seriously: Are shad...

More than six months after Aaron Swartz's death, legislators in Washington have finally introduced 'Aaron's Law,' a bill to reform the much-maligned anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Named in honor of the late activist and hacker, who...

The list of technology companies allegedly participating in a vast U.S. government surveillance program known as PRISM, which The Washington Post and The Guardian released to the public yesterday, is notable for one name that's not on it: Twitter. Th...

How much do parents know about their kids' Internet activity? Not much, according to a new study from McAfee that shows parents really don’t know what their kids are up to online. What's even more telling is that 46% of youth acknowledged they would ...

Imagine driving down the freeway and seeing a photo that you took on vacation plastered across a billboard. No one asked for your permission to use it, and you certainly haven't received a check. Scenarios such as this one have struck fear into Briti...

As Rebecca Martinson knows, there’s no privacy on the Internet. When a profanity-laden rant she emailed to only her Delta Gamma sorority sisters made its way onto Gawker and into viral history, she was publicly mocked and forced to resign from the so...

Students in the UK and the United States will be able to get AnchorFree's popular virtual private network (VPN) client Hotspot Shield for free, as long as they have a ".edu" or ".ac.uk" email address. The company launched the promotion on Monday, and...

Harvard University secretly scoured the email accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, in an attempt to find out the origin of a media leak. After the investigation was revealed by the Boston Globe on Saturday, surprised faculty members, professors, ...

Does Skype let police and authorities spy on users' conversations? That's the question a wide group of advocacy organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as Reporters Without Borders, and many activists and journalists, are a...

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